• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.157-163
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• 2002

A new flash EEPROM device with p^＋ poly-Si control gate and n^＋ poly-Si floating side gate was fabricated and characterized. The n^＋ poly-Si gate is formed on both sides of the p^＋ poly-Si gate, and controls the underneath channel conductivity depending on the number of electron in it. The cell was programmed by hot-carrier-injection at the drain extension, and erased by direct tunneling. The proposed EEPROM cell can be scaled down to 50 nm or less. Shown were measured programming and erasing characteristics. The channel resistance with the write operation was increased by at least 3 times.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.206-211
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• 2005

The device makers want to make higher density chips on the wafer through scale-down. The change of WSix/poly-Si gate film thickness is one of the key issues under 100 nm device structure. As a new device etching process is applied, end point detection(EPD) time delay was occurred in DPS+ poly chamber of Applied Materials. This is a barrier of device shrink because EPD time delay made physical damage on the surface of gate oxide. To investigate the EPD time delay, the experimental test combined with OES(Optical Emission Spectroscopy) and SEM(Scanning Electron Microscopy) was performed using patterned wafers. As a result, a EPD delay time is reduced by a new chamber seasoning and a new wavelength line through plasma scan. Applying a new wavelength of 252 nm makes it successful to call corrected EPD in WSix/poly-Si stack-down gate etching in the DPS+ poly chamber for the current and next generation devices.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.233-237
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• 2002

A giga-bit DRAM(dynamic random access memory) technology with W/WNx/poly-Si dual gate electrode is presented in 7his papers. We fabricated $0.16\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS using this technology and succeeded in suppressing short-channel effects. The saturation current of nMOS and surface-channel pMOS(SC-pMOS) with a $0.16\mu\textrm{m}$ gate was observed 330 $\mu\A/\mu\textrm{m}$ and 100 $\mu\A/\mu\textrm{m}$ respectively. The lower salutation current of SC-pMOS is due to the p-doped poly gate depletion. SC-pMOS shows good DIBL(dram-induced harrier lowering) and sub-threshold characteristics, and there was no boron penetration.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.47-49
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• 2004

Gate protection $SiN_x$ as an alternative to a conventional re-oxidation process in Dynamic Random Access Memory devices is investigated. This process can not only protect the gate electrode tungsten against oxidation, but also save the thermal budget due to the re-oxidation. The protection $SiN_x$ process is applied to the poly-Si gate, and its device performance is measured and compared with the re-oxidation processed poly-Si gate. The results on the gate dielectric integrity show that etch damage-curing capability of protection $SiN_x$ is comparable to the re-oxidation process. In addition, the hot carrier immunity of the $SiN_x$ deposited gate is superior to that of re-oxidation processed gate.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.376-381
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• 1992

Tungsten silicide films were deposited on the highly phosphorus-doped poly Si/SiO2/Si substrates by Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition. They were heat treated in different conditions. XTEM, SIMS and high frequency C-V analysis were conducted for characterization. It can be concluded that outdiffusion of phosphours impurity throught the silicide films lead to its depletion in the poly-Si gate region near the gate oxide, resulting in loss of capacitance and increase of effective gate oxide thickness.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1001-1007
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• 1996

The conduction mechanisms of the off-current in low temperature (.leq. >$600^{\circ}C$) processed polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors (LTP poly-Si TFT'S) have been systematically studied. Especially, the temperature and bias dependence of the off-current between hydrogenated and nonhydrogenated poly-Si TFT's were investigated and compared. The off-current of nonhydrogenated poly-Si TF's is because of a resistive current at low gate and drain voltage, thermally activated current at high gate and low drain voltage, and Poole-Frenkel emission current in the depletion region near the drain at high gate and drain voltage. After hydrogenation it has shown that the off -current mechanism is caused mainly by thermal activation and that the field-induced current component is suppressed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1988.10a
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• pp.79-81
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• 1988

The capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of poly-Si gate MOS devices fabricated by Low-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD) system have been studied. In the case poly-Si gate, work function difference and surface state charge density was found lower than that of Al gate. This fact was identified from the C-V curves that flatband shift was shown small due to the hydrogen gas diffused into oxide in processing of alloy and the annealing effect in processing of poly-Si deposition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.264.1-264.1
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• 2014

현재 디스플레이에서 가장 널리 이용되는 ELA poly-Si TFT의 표면 거칠기 등으로 인한 대면적 문제를 해결하고자 연구 중인 MIC 방식의 ULG poly-Si TFT를 이용한 게이트-바이어스 스트레스에 따른 전기적 특성을 비교하고자 한다. Positive gate bias의 경우 20V의 게이트 전압과 -0.1V의 드레인 전압에서 10,000초 동안 비교 측정하였으며, 이때 ${\Delta}VTH$는 ELA poly-Si TFT가 143.6 mV, ULG poly-Si TFT가 28.8 mV였다. 또한 negative gate bias의 경우 -20 V의 게이트 전압과 -0.1 V의 드레인 전압에서 10,000초 동안 비교 측정하였으며, 이때 ${\Delta}VTH$는 ELA poly-Si TFT가 154.4 mV, ULG poly-Si TFT가 70.8 mV였다. 이는 게이트 절연막과 채널층 사이의 계면에서 높은 표면 거칠기로 인한 전계의 차이에 의해 더 많은 전하의 트랩에 기인한 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.120-121
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• 2007

Nano-floating gate memory (NFGM) devices were fabricated by using the low temperature poly-Si thin films crystallized by ELA and the $In_2O_3$ nano-particles embedded in polyimide layers as charge storage. Memory effect due to the charging effects of $In_2O_3$ nano-particles in polyimide layer was observed from the TFT NFGM. The post-annealing in 3% diluted hydrogen $(H_2/N_2)$ ambient improved the retention characteristics of $In_2O_3$ nano-particles embedded poly-Si TFT NFGM by reducing the interfacial states as well as grain boundary trapping states.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07c
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• pp.1085-1087
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• 1995

A large leakage current may be one of the critical issues for poly-silicon thin film transistors(poly-Si TFTs) for LCD applications. In order to reduce the leakage current of poly-Si TFTs, several offset gated structures have been reported. However, those devices, where the offset length in the source region is not same as that in the drain region, exhibit the asymmetric electrical performances such as the threshold voltage shift and the variation of the subthreshold slope. The different offset length is caused by the additional mask step for the conventional offset structures. Also the self-aligned implantation may not be applicable due to the mis-alignment problem. In this paper, we propose a new fabrication method for poly-Si TFTs with a self-aligned offset gated structure by employing a photo resistor reflow process. Compared with the conventional poly-Si TFTs, the device is consist of two gate electrodes, of which one is the entitled main gate where the gate bias is employed and the other is the entitled subgate which is separate from both sides of the main gate. The poly-Si channel layer below the offset oxide is protected from the injected ion impurities for the source/drain implantation and acts as an offset region of the proposed device. The key feature of our new device is the offset lesion due to the offset oxide. Our experimental results show that the offset region, due to the photo resistor reflow process, has been successfully obtained in order to fabricate the offset gated poly-Si TFTs. The advantages of the proposed device are that the offset length in the source region is the same as that in the drain region because of the self-aligned implantation and the proposed device does not require any additional mask process step.